The first table below looks at the demand for MQSeries skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MQSeries over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MQSeries
Rank 35 36 38
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +2
Permanent jobs citing MQSeries 12 27 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 4.167% 7.563% 6.776%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.18% 20.77% 21.01%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 4
Average salary - £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+21.05% +11.76%
All Application Platforms
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
66 130 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 22.92% 36.41% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 47 61 78
Average salary £43,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £24,350
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MQSeries
Hertfordshire

MQSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MQSeries across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Watford MQSeries Jobs Demand Trend

MQSeries
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MQSeries across the Watford region.

Watford MQSeries Salary Trend

MQSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing MQSeries also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MQSeries.

1 43 (100.00%) UNIX
1 43 (100.00%) DB2
1 43 (100.00%) IBM
1 43 (100.00%) Finance
1 43 (100.00%) Retail
1 43 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 40 (93.02%) IBM HTTP Server
2 40 (93.02%) HTTP
2 40 (93.02%) Linux
2 40 (93.02%) Windows
2 40 (93.02%) AIX
2 40 (93.02%) WebSphere Application Server
2 40 (93.02%) IIS
2 40 (93.02%) Oracle
3 33 (76.74%) E-Commerce
4 31 (72.09%) Games
5 27 (62.79%) Tomcat
6 26 (60.47%) J2EE
6 26 (60.47%) SQL
6 26 (60.47%) Java
7 20 (46.51%) HP
8 17 (39.53%) Dell
8 17 (39.53%) ITIL
8 17 (39.53%) SUSE
8 17 (39.53%) Project Management
8 17 (39.53%) Red Hat
8 17 (39.53%) Web Development
8 17 (39.53%) Sun
8 17 (39.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (30.23%) Subversion

MQSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing MQSeries also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MQSeries. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 43 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 26 (60.47%) J2EE
3 13 (30.23%) .NET
4 10 (23.26%) Middleware
4 10 (23.26%) JDBC
5 3 (6.977%) XML
5 3 (6.977%) Flash
5 3 (6.977%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 40 (93.02%) WebSphere Application Server
1 40 (93.02%) IIS
1 40 (93.02%) IBM HTTP Server
2 27 (62.79%) Tomcat
3 13 (30.23%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (23.26%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 40 (93.02%) HTTP
2 13 (30.23%) Firewall
3 10 (23.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (100.00%) DB2
2 3 (6.977%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Ant
1 13 (30.23%) Subversion
1 13 (30.23%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.977%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (6.977%) LoadRunner
General
1 43 (100.00%) Finance
1 43 (100.00%) Retail
2 31 (72.09%) Games
3 10 (23.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Architect
1 13 (30.23%) Architect
2 10 (23.26%) Operations Support Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 10 (23.26%) Technical Manager
2 10 (23.26%) Operations Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Delivery Manager
2 10 (23.26%) Technical Services Manager
2 10 (23.26%) Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Support Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Services Delivery Manager
2 10 (23.26%) Service Manager
3 9 (20.93%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (20.93%) Senior Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.977%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) UNIX
2 40 (93.02%) Windows
2 40 (93.02%) AIX
2 40 (93.02%) Linux
3 17 (39.53%) SUSE
3 17 (39.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (23.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) E-Commerce
2 17 (39.53%) Project Management
2 17 (39.53%) Web Development
2 17 (39.53%) ITIL
3 12 (27.91%) Service Delivery
4 5 (11.63%) Performance Testing
4 5 (11.63%) Performance Management
4 5 (11.63%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (6.977%) System Testing
5 3 (6.977%) Regression Testing
5 3 (6.977%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Java
1 26 (60.47%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) Bash shell
2 10 (23.26%) Perl
3 3 (6.977%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) IBM
2 40 (93.02%) Oracle
3 20 (46.51%) HP
4 17 (39.53%) Dell
4 17 (39.53%) Red Hat
4 17 (39.53%) Sun
5 10 (23.26%) Microsoft